Word: bunk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...overhead to explode harmlessly in the ocean; none has landed nearby. As Williams shows a visitor around her place, she apologizes for the darkness. The orphanage has a generator, but no gas. Williams shares a double bed on wooden slats with four babies. The older kids have metal-frame bunk beds. The mattresses, where they exist, are inch-thick foam pads. Rambunctious kids have torn down pieces of the straw ceiling. Daylight shines through the corrugated tin roof. Williams' main worries are food and medicine. During peacetime, she would get bulgur wheat from the World Food Program. Now she gets...
...answer came to him while surfing the Web. That's when he stumbled on the site for Grandkids and Me camp, in Amery, Wis. The three-year-old program caters to grandparents who want to spend a weekend away with a grandchild. Twenty-five to 30 campers bunk in dorm rooms overlooking Lake Icaghowan, and as many as six counselors take care of the group, planning meals and a variety of nature and craft activities. The price of this all-inclusive weekend: $250 a grandparent, $200 a child...
...Russian mob. He then boarded a train to Mongolia, followed by a 35-hour bus ride through the Gobi desert to Beijing. In this bus, which Kieran describes as the “modern equivalent of a slave galley,” the passengers lay in four-level bunks. They slept with their hands shielding their faces to keep their noses from slamming against the higher bunk when the bus hit a bump. From Beijing, Kieran had hoped to take a boat to Japan, but a monsoon foiled that plan. He flew in by plane instead, and landed...
Gleason says she was immediately struck by Watkins’ intelligence, even as they were just moving into their double in Cabot House and figuring out who would have what bunk...
...female Republicans dressed in fighting G.O.P. red, the wayward Democrats did get some hugs from their colleagues across the aisle. While Tom DeLay may be disappointed that his power grab seems to have failed, he has got to be happy that he forced Democrats to bunk two to a room at an Oklahoma Holiday Inn. --Reported by Hilary Hylton/Ardmore